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New digital/DVD offerings: 'Doctor's Notebook' and more


What the heck should you watch this week? Peruse these new suggestions:

Release o' the week: A Young Doctor's Notebook . I missed this four-part series when it aired, so I'm eager to catch up on the dark comedy starring Daniel Radcliffe as a young British doctor in the early 20th century. (Jon Hamm plays his older self. One day I dream Hamm will play my older self in a movie ...)

- The Unknown Known. Errol Morris helms this documentary, which is an extended discussion with Donald Rumsfeld.

- Helix: Season 1. I keep meaning to finish watching the first season of this intense Syfy show about a terrifying and perplexing disease outbreak.

Also out: Guns N Roses: Appetite for Democracy - Live at Hard Rock Casino Las Vegas, The Twilight Zone: Essential Episodes, The Killing: The Complete Third Season, Like Father, Like Son, Hinterland: Series 1, The Lunchbox

Blu-ray highlights: Among this week's Blu-ray releases are John Waters' Cry-Baby and 1983's The Final Terror with Daryl Hannah.

On-demand highlights: See Behaving Badly, Half of a Yellow Sun, My America and the Roger Ebert doc Life Itself (July 4) on most on-demand platforms while they're still in theaters.

Related news: The sixth season of Sons of Anarchy arrives on DVD Aug. 26.

Next week: The Jason Bateman comedy Bad Words arrives.